Air Traffic Control Issues

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No doubt will be Management down the line here starting to feel the heat.

The 'SMH' report is paywalled but shows a side-by-side FR24 map of where the VAd and QFd planes were at the time.

There's no mention of Federal Minister for Transport Catherine King, who is responsible for funding Airservices Australia, and nor any comment about whether any staff have been stood down.

The ATSB was apparently only notified of the latest incident today. It's surprising this didn't occur on Sunday, or Monday.

 

[Quickstatus]

Transport Catherine King, who is responsible for funding Airservices Australia

I've been looking into the business/legal character of Airservices Australia ASA a bit more

While it is a Government Business Entity GBE, it is actually a Corporate Commonwealth Entity CCE as distinct to a Commonwealth Company. Another CCE is Australia Post. A CCE is not constituted under the Corporations Act unlike the Commonwealth Companies. Both are owned by the Governmrnt

Regardless, Airservices Australia is self funding. The vast majority of its income comes from charges to aircraft operators for using Australian navigation, ATC and ARFF infrastructure

While self funding, the govt can financially assist via capital injections through Parliamentary Appropriations and/or an Act of Parliament.

Of course any GBE can be privatised.....